Audubon Society to host nature photographer

LOWER LAKE -- The Redbud Audubon Society will host Lake County nature photographer Lyle Madeson, who will share photos from a trip to Africa.

The meeting takes place Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Lower Lake Historic Schoolhouse Museum, located at 16435 Morgan Valley Road. Madeson will speak and show slides of birds and animals from Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Madeson and his wife, Deanna, took a 24-day, fly-in trip to Kruger National Park in South Africa last summer. Madeson will share his and Deanna's photos of sunbirds, lovebirds, numerous African eagles, superb starlings, hornbills and a stork rookery, according to Redbud Audubon president Marilyn Waits.

Madeson will also show many mammals of southern Africa, including baboons with their infants and lions and leopards with their prey.